Politician Training

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

A politician... one that would circumvent God. - William Shakespeare

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Sudafed: Brought litigation against a government official - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi